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gmax137 reacted to PeroK's post in the thread Trying to understand the logic behind adding vectors with an angle between them with
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Those are speeds. Speed, by definition, is the magnitude of a velocity. The original statement of the problem is sloppy in using... -
gmax137 replied to the thread Trying to understand the logic behind adding vectors with an angle between them.@renobueno4153 I really hope you think about this until you understand it -- it holds the key idea in much of what follows in classical... -
gmax137 reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread My Grade 11 Math mark is eating me alive. What do I do? with
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But there are lots of institutions other than "top institutions" that give degrees in math and physics. Their graduates might not be the... -
gmax137 replied to the thread Today I Learned.When I was working in electric power plants the companies took these issues very seriously. Entry into tanks, pits, etc was governed... -
gmax137 reacted to jbriggs444's post in the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid with
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What about literature from Edward Everett Horton? -
gmax137 replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.And history from Sherman & Mr Peabody... the original (?) Wayback machine -
gmax137 reacted to jedishrfu's post in the thread I Unit Circle Confusion: A Self-Study Challenge? with
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Sometimes credible things upon inspection are not so credible. This is the bane of self study students. -
gmax137 reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid with
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It was still the same schedule in Virginia in the late 1970s and early 1980s when I went to school there. Most houses had AC by that... -
gmax137 replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.These things are not monolithic, at least in the US. Here, school systems are local, run by the county/town/city. Back in the 1990s I... -
gmax137 replied to the thread Collection of Science Jokes P2.I'm not sure if this one has been posted before. It makes me laugh every time I see "Roundy - Roundy"
